'Increasing international pressure' on Germany over Herero and Hama genocide in Namibia
The massacres of the Namibian tribes became known as the first genocide of the 20th century.
Elsa Buchanan May 18, 2017
Hereros and Namas
Thousands of Namibia's ethnic Hereros and Namas gave an heroic welcome in October 2011 to 20 skulls of their ancestors returned from Germany, where colonial authorities had taken them a century agoBRIGITTE WEIDLICH/AFP/Getty Images
An organisation calling for Western colonial powers to pay reparations to their African former colonies has welcomed the increasing international pressure on Germany over its bloody massacre in its former south-west African colony of what is now Namibia.
The massacres of the Namibian tribes became known as the first genocide of the 20th century, after an estimated 24,000 to 100,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama died at the hands of the Germans. In January, Herero and Nama filed a class action lawsuit to get collective reparations and the right to be present at the ongoing negotiations between the German and Namibian governments.
Continued: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/increasing-international-pressure-germany-over-herero-hama-genocide-namibia-1622235
Who knows if this is true, I found a story today that came out but went with this more mainstream source from about 10 days ago.
Al Jazeera:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2017/05/namibia-skulls-people-170524084141641.html
